As Shangqing, Chen Xun was highly respected and enjoyed the highest courtesy in the courtyard of the Li Fire Palace.

If Chen Xun wanted to fully recover his cultivation, even if he could speed up the flow of time within the Burning Heaven Treasure Lotus, he would still need to stay in Luo Long City for more than 50 years. Chen Xun naturally wasn’t in a hurry to win the trust of the Ning clan. He stayed in the guest courtyard and had Ning Dongchen come over every few days to discuss the scriptures and dao. He wasn’t lonely either.

Although Ning Dongchen had a cold temperament and didn’t have any close friends in Luo Long City, he somehow felt that Chen Xun was close to him. In addition, his father also wanted him to get closer to Chen Xun. In the end, he spent almost all day with Chen Xun, trying out the spirituality of various medicinal herbs to deduce a new pill recipe.

Chen Xun naturally wouldn’t be in a hurry to take out a new pill recipe. This way, he would unknowingly spend half a year in the guest courtyard of the Li Fire Palace.

Chen Xun calculated the time. He should be able to work out a new pill formula for the most basic Origin Gathering Pill. He wanted to wait for Ning Dongchen to give him a surprise next time, but he didn’t want Ning Dongchen to leave for half a month before coming to the guest courtyard with exhaustion on his face.

Seeing that his spiritual sea was empty and Primordial Mana was exhausted, his powerful Celestial Body was seriously injured.

“Brother Dongchen left Luo Long City for more than ten days. Why did he come back like this?” Chen Xun asked with concern.

After spending more than half a year together, Chen Xun was rather fond of this straightforward and depressed youth.

As the first person he had met since entering the Meng Yuan Realm, Chen Xun did not wish for any accidents to happen to Ning Dongchen.

Ning Dongchen smiled helplessly and said to Chen Xun, “A Yellow Clay Ridge demon tore open a spatial rift and barged in. Several cities were slaughtered. We followed the Zhan Wu Palace Elder, Ning Jingtian, to the siege. There were several fierce battles and many losses, but we still let this demon escape into the depths of Mount Subdued Dragon.” This time around, we need to organize more elite combat strength to enter the depths of the Fulong Mountain to search for this magical creature. Perhaps we won’t be able to accompany Brother Zong for a while. “Uncle Zhou has been taking care of cultivation since he was young. If Brother Zong has any inconvenience in Luo Long City, you can order Uncle Zhou to do it.”

After Ning Dongchen finished speaking, the master behind him stepped forward to greet Chen Xun, “Zhou Qibo greets True Monarch Zong.”

Although the Demon Realm and Mengtian Realm were different realms, the space-time between the two realms was much more chaotic than imagined, and there were many distortions in space-time. As a result, new space-time rifts would often appear in the territories of the races.

If the newly appeared spatial rift was extremely stable, it would usually mean a great calamity that would annihilate the clan and destroy the city. Even if the newly appeared spatial rift was extremely unstable, in a few days, there would still be some powerful magical creatures that would use this opportunity to break into Mengtian Realm and hunt for humans everywhere.

Previously, Chen Xun had only heard the Ning Clan father and son chatting about this. He hadn’t expected that only half a year had passed since a Demon Lord level devil had intruded into Great Ning Division.

Although there were Nirvana Realm experts like Great Ning Division and Ning Jingtian in Ning Hao, the Demon Lord level magical creatures were extremely mobile, and their physical bodies were exceptionally strong. The Ning clan elites did not possess extremely strong binding magical treasures, and it was extremely easy to alert the enemy with their army. It was definitely not an easy task to trap and kill them with three to five hundred elite combat strength.

The battle took place tens of thousands of kilometers north of Luo Long City. Chen Xun did not notice it beforehand. While considering whether he should secretly attack, he asked the maid to bring out the purple-robed battle armor that Ning Dongchen had given him earlier and said, “I can’t share the worries for Brother Ning on the battlefield. It’s better to return this armor to its original owner!”

Ning Dongchen used the Fiendgod Body Refining Technique. After entering the Celestial Realm, his physical body became even more powerful, comparable to a low-grade defensive Dao Weapon. In other words, only spirit armor above the low-grade Dao Weapon could provide him with effective protection.

However, how could the Daning tribe have so many Dao Artifacts Spirit Armor? As for the Heaven Ranked Spirit Armor that was worn on his body, it would be extremely easy to destroy it if he fought against a strong enemy. It was better not to wear it. This was also the reason why Ning Dongchen was accustomed to appearing on the battlefield with his bare chest.

It was just that Ning Dongchen’s body had been damaged in the battle against magical creatures. He was no longer as strong as before. At this time, he still wanted to enter the battlefield. This purple-robed battle armor could still provide a certain amount of effective protection.

He came back this time to heal his injuries and find a piece of armor to go back to the battlefield. He didn’t expect Chen Xun to let the purple-robed armor be returned to him.

Ning Dongchen chuckled and said embarrassedly, “I’m too embarrassed to take back the things I sent out. However, I need this armor to return to the battlefield. I won’t be courteous to Brother Zong anymore.”

Even if Ning Dongchen wanted to return to the battlefield, he wasn’t in a hurry for a moment. He immediately stayed in the guest courtyard and asked the waitress to set up the banquet, drink with Chen Xun, and let Zhou Qibo accompany him.

Zhou Qibo had cultivated for nearly a thousand years. He was even slightly older than Ning Hongde, but he was only at the late stage of the Origin Core Realm. However, he could survive all the demonic tribulations. He was considered an old man in Luo Long City, and he had won Ning Hongde’s trust.

Ning Dongchen did not directly lead the troops. Normally, Zhou Qibo would bring a few family members to serve him. Ning Dongchen did not know how many people would be stuck in Fulong Mountain this time. He was also worried that other high-spirited family members might not be able to serve Chen Xun well, so he decided to keep Zhou Qibo here.

According to Ning Dongchen’s description, the Demon Lord who broke into Mengtian Realm through the spatial rift this time was a cyan-eyed demon. Although his body wasn’t very large, he had the ability to control the souls of others and refine them into puppets. The lower his cultivation, the easier it was to control it. As a result, it was difficult for the Ning clan to control the army to surround this demon.

However, with a small amount of elite combat power, it was difficult to set up a heavenly net. Looking at the demon’s cultivation, which was only comparable to the second stage of Nirvana, Great Ning Division had already lost quite a few experts.

Chen Xun secretly decided to take action to prevent this Azure Eyed Demon from causing irreparable damage to Great Ning Division. Just as Chen Xun made up his mind to send Ning Dongchen away, a loud voice came from outside the courtyard.

“Ning Dongchen came back from his injuries to recuperate. Although he didn’t say anything to us, we already know. We still have some things we need to ask him about. Don’t stop us.”

Although Chen Xun didn’t leave his house in the guest courtyard, he knew Luo Long City like the back of his hand. From the voices of the people present, he knew that it was Ning Jingtian, the son of Ning Zihe, who had come to the Li Fire Palace.

Although Ning Dongchen did not have any grudges against Ning Zihe, because of Ning Ning, it was extremely difficult to see Ning Zihe. Moreover, with their cultivation, they did not even need to look out to know that Ning Ning, the daughter of Great Ning Division’s Sect Master Ning Hao, was right beside Ning Zihe …

Ning Dongchen pretended not to know, nor did he have any intention of getting up to welcome him. Soon, he saw Ning Zihe and Ning Ning, surrounded by a dozen generals, walking to the courtyard.

Only then did Ning Dongchen reluctantly invite them to sit down and introduce them to Chen Xun.

After exchanging greetings with Chen Xun, Ning Zihe said seriously to Ning Dongchen, “I heard that you were heavily injured by the Azure Eyed Demon and had no choice but to return to Luo Long City to recover from your injuries. However, you don’t have to worry about anything. Ning Ning and I will lead our troops to meet up with my father tomorrow.” However, we were afraid that we weren’t prepared enough, so we specifically decided to come over and ask for your advice. “I hope Dong Chen doesn’t think we’re too troublesome. Please leave the matter of killing the Azure Eyed Demon to us. You can rest assured and recover in Luo Long City.”

“Who said I came back to Luo Long City to recover from my injuries?” Ning Dongchen sat down. Although Ning Ning had never looked at him seriously, he was unwilling to lose his ambition before Ning Ning. He said with a sullen expression, “I’m afraid that Brother Zong’s staying in Luo Long City without anyone to take care of him will harm the way my Li Huo Palace treats guests. It’s arranged here. I’ll go to Fu Long Mountain with you tomorrow!”

“Looking at Brother Zong’s injuries, he’s almost healed. Would you like to come with us to Mount Subdued Dragon to exterminate the demons tomorrow?” Ning Zihe asked Chen Xun straightforwardly, his bright eyes staring at Chen Xun’s face like lightning.

Ning Dongchen’s face twitched. Only now did he understand that Ning Zihe was actually running towards Chen Xun.

Although the clan council had decided to probe Chen Xun’s scriptures six months ago, Ning Jingtian and Ning Zihe had not moved. Ning Dongchen thought that this matter was over, but he didn’t expect that Ning Zihe would suddenly come at this time.

Although Ning Dongchen did not object to the original decision, it was still extremely uncomfortable for Ning Zihe to suddenly attack at this time-and he knew Chen Xun well. Now that he had tricked Chen Xun into going to the battlefield, he couldn’t bear it anymore, so he wanted to stand up and chase Ning Zihe and the others away, not letting them do anything to provoke Chen Xun.

Chen Xun laughed and said, “The so-called thousand-day military training is only for a short period of time. If I don’t have the chance to serve the Ning Clan again, I won’t have the face to enjoy such courtesy here anymore!”

Seeing that Ning Dongchen was so furious that he wanted to chase Ning Zihe away, Chen Xun smiled and pressed down on his shoulder, saying, “I watch the sky at night. There is a wisp of extremely faint Geng Gold Qi floating in the clouds in the southeast of Mount Subdued Dragon, and there may be a ore vein below that mountain that can mine Geng Gold.” This time, I have fallen into the spatial rift. My spirit sword, battle armor, and many pill refining magic treasures have all been destroyed. If I want to refine them one by one, I can also seize this opportunity to gather some gold and iron materials when I enter the Dragon Mountain. “As for my new pill formula, I still lack a medicinal herb. Perhaps I can find it in Mount Subdued Dragon …”

Ning Zihe came here this time mainly because he wanted to pull Chen Xun up, so that he could test his void. However, he did not think of offending him. He smiled politely and said, “Brother Zong, if you have any instructions for entering the Dragon Mountain, please tell me. Although Zihe is not good at refining pills and artifacts, he still has the ability to run around.”

Ning Zihe’s words were very polite, no one could have any resentment towards him.

Chen Xun sighed softly in his heart for Ning Dongchen. Ning Zihe was an experienced person who was capable of scheming and calculating. His reputation among the younger generation of Luo Long City was extremely high. Ning Hao didn’t have a successful descendant who could succeed him as sect master. In the end, the position of sect master would most likely fall on Ning Zihe’s head. Ning Ning’s gaze would never fall on Ning Dongchen.

After sending Ning Zihe and Ning Ning away, Ning Dongchen felt that dragging Chen Xun into the Devil Execution War would require the protection of the purple-robed battle armor, so he decided to leave the purple-robed battle armor behind.

Chen Xun laughed and said, “I’m good at controlling lightning, and I don’t charge into traps. What do I need this armor for to fight against that devil? Brother Ning’s body is injured, and it won’t be able to recover for a while. It’s hard to use a pair of iron fists to destroy the devil. I have to choose a battle weapon before tomorrow!”

“My father went to the East Pass to take charge and left behind a Purple Dragon Halberd for me. With the Purple-robed Battle Armor and the Purple Dragon Halberd, my combat strength isn’t much weaker than before. I just didn’t expect to drag Brother Zong in too.” Ning Dongchen said guiltily.

Ning Dongchen took out a purple halberd from his storage ring and showed it to Chen Xun. The halberd blade that was overflowing with cold energy had actually condensed frost in the air. It was not a weak mid-grade Heaven Ranked Profound Weapon.

Chen Xun took the Purple Dragon Halberd and pretended to take a Actually, he knew where the Purple Dragon Halberd was strong and what its weakness was. He said to Ning Dongchen, “I specialize in pill refining and artifact forging in the Chaos Spirit Realm. I’m not boasting, but I’m also capable. If Brother Ning believes me, I can refine the Purple Dragon Halberd for Brother Ning along the way, or I can remove the weakness that impedes the circulation of True Essence.”